Reading High School - Arxalma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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E in ffm , K We 47511 fha feng FOURSOUARE I-IER TOWERS RISE, ARX ALMA FAIR! WIDE-SPREAD I-IER BEAUTY LIES, ARX ALMA RAREI SI-IELTERED BENEATI-I I-IER WALLS SI-IE KEEPS I-IER OWN CI-IILDREN OF LIBERTY, WE CALL I-IER I-IOME. EVER HER CARE SHALL BE ro KEEP us TRUE, UPRIGI-IT, ASPIRING, WITH FERVOR DUE, CROWNING OUR visioms ALE SKYWARD DoTH GLEAM OUR SI-IINING CITADEL, STRONG AND SERENE. ALL DOWN TI-IE YEARS .TO COME, REVERENT WE'LL BE! TURNING OUR I-IEARTS AND STEPS I-IOMEWARD TO TI-IEE, AND TI-IOUGI-I OUR WESTWARD WAYS MAY LEAD US FAR, WE'LL KEEP ARX ALMA PURE, OUR GUIDING STAR. in the year of 1930, as she was cIimbing the hill to school, Miss IVIiIdred E. Runyeon could see onIy the four towers pointing to the sI4y. She was so FiIIed with their beauty that she went to room IQO where she taught English, got pencil and paper, and standing by the window vvrote these inspiring Words. Later that same year Mr. Luther W. Ooodhart, the instructor of music at the castIe, wrote the meIody to this song through vvhich Reading I-Iigh SchooI students ever since have pIedged their devotion to their school.

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,Maw-M-.,.,,Q 92am Xie fvflrfzvdzzf , Q2 Xie 5655 497 48 you may not realize it novv, these three years have been among the happiest and most profitable you will ever lcnovv. A major share of the credit lor your pleasure and success goes to these faithful, competent, far-visioned men and women who have been your teachers here. Your heartaches have been theirs, your failures, theirs, your triumphs, their pride. The lessons they have taught you, in and out of the classroom, are their contributions to your development and your future achievements. They recognize in you their dreams of immortality, their hopes of better things to come. They have made Reading High School a haven, a symbol, a realitykyour Alma Ma awf jfhsdzzl